what should i do

[tretchris24]

I am an active member of this forum for at least the past 6months, I just happened to forget all my login info.I will now be clean for almost 7 months at the end of the month from a 100 mg oxycontin a day and gram of heroin every two days addction for two years. It was an absolute nasty disease and it tore my life up. It destroyed my relationships with family, friends, girlfriends, and all the stupid things i did to obtain the drugs, needless to say it ruined my life and im only 22, just turned yesterday. well i finally decided to do something about my addiction after several attempts on my own and i relaized i couldn't do it. I went through detox and a program and am on suboxone, i started on the third day of the detox the sub, and am starting to lower my dosage. I started at 16 mgs but went up to 32 mgs up until this past month. Now im back down to 24 mgs and going lower each month, but ive got a a major issue. While trying to relive my younger years as a skateboarder(a long lost dream), I fell and landed with all my weight on my left wrist and isntantly felt something go out. Well after having my mom look at it and having it only swell up for a few days I thought that I could man up, hope the sub would help, and figured it was just a bad sprain or inner bruise. Well this was about a month ago and after x-rays and a MRI I have a torn ligament in my left wrist. The pain has consistently gotten worse day by day to the point where it is unbearable even with the sub.. I have a splint at the moment and am getting it casted on monday but as far as the pain goes my addiction/primary doctor is at a loss at what to do. The pain is so bad that I am to the point of being fine with going into withdrawals from the sub and opt for other options to ease the pain. I have been taking every nsaid and non-narcotic pain releiver with the sub to see if i can get tany releief. nothing has even remotely worked. One of his suggestions was to put me on hydrodcodone and stop the sub, until the surgery or we figure out what we need to do.  this was on tuesday. I noticed wd's already from stopping the 24 mgs of sub especially today, i have access to the hydrocodone but that wont give any effect till the sub is out of my system which could be 3 to 7 days, and when i treid it it gave absilutely no relief, I really have my hands tied. I am very confident in my absinence and recovery, i may be optimistic, but my general thoughts on painkillers make me feel disgusted and i never want to go back to what i went through before oh so many times. I want to go by what the doctor thinks is best but the pain is making me almost to the point of immobilizing me and i am open to any suggestions. thanks to all who read my long post. and any in the past who helped me through the toughest times ive ever had in my life.

[flmagi]

For such intense pain the suboxone won't make a dent, no matter how much you take. If your doctor and you feel you need something stronger, I think get off the sub for now and take care of your immediate problem. Talk to your Sub. doctor so that there will be no problems getting back on the Sub as soon as you possible can. Remeber to take those pain meds only as perscribed and for as short a period of time as possible.
Good luck and I hope you heal soon.

[broknbck]

Well,

sounds like you have come a long way! I'm sure you are thinking you would have to be crazy to start all over again. Especially when you know your wrist is going to heal soon and the pain will go away. If you get on that rollercoaster again, it may not go away so soon like your wrist pain.

Wasn't the pain of withdrawl and the constant rat race worse than the pain in your wrist?

Ice does help a little. And tylenol.  Which after taking pain killers for a long time is really the only pain reliever working in the pills.

Best to stay away from the old painkillers.

[worried878]

I agree with avis...ask ur doctor what dose would be needed to adjust for pain controll....it would be a shame to stop the sub and go back on pain meds then start all over...keep posting

[avisg]

I would suggest temporarily raising your sub back up to help control the pain. Then when you heal you can taper back down.Let us know what you decided to do.